Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma is Professor Emeritus at Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. A leading field archaeologist and scholar of the Mexican pre-Columbian world, his major projects include a comprehensive investigation of pre-Columbian, colonial and modern Tula sites; Teotihuacan, where he excavated the Pyramid of the Sun and founded the Museum of Teotihuacan Culture and the Center for Teotihuacan Studies; and the city of Tenochtitlan, its sacred precinct and the Templo Mayor, whose discovery and project he coordinated.

He has authored many books, including Muerte a filo de obsidiana, The Aztecs, Life and Death in the Templo Mayor, and Tlatelolco. La última ciudad, la primera resistencia. He has been director of the National Museum of Anthropology’s Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology and the Templo Mayor Museum. He has curated numerous museum exhibitions, including “Aztecs” for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, “Isis and Quetzalcoatl” at the Monterrey Forum of Cultures, and “Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. 500 years after its fall” at the Templo Mayor Museum.

Moctezuma graduated in Archaeology from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and obtained his Master’s degree in Anthropological Sciences, specializing in Archaeology, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he also earned his doctorate.